Connecticut western news., 1887-06-15
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NoW hdVOu udsS d1Icduy S0CuI0u Ocu- eral Hawley for orator on next Memo rial day.
 Welcome the coming, rob the part ing guest" is the motto of the seaside landlord.
 Young hopeful lon seeing a negro that spoiled child 9
 The 17th reunion of the Connecticut Masonic veterans will be held Wednes- day, June 22d, at New Britain. Rev T. J. Lee announces that his l wedding will take place the latter part of this month. This is no Chestnut. Miss Marietta Ho'ley Josiah Aliens | Wife) rceived $11, ,O0O for the manu- script of her new book: Samantha at Saratoga
 Snow fell on June II on the peaks of Otter, near Lynchburg, Va. This is the first snow storm since 1857 so late in the season.
 John G. Wetmore, one of Winsted's s most prominent business men, presi- dent of the New England Pin Company there, died Tuesday, June 7.
 There is an old lady in Brookield eighty three years of age who has the first dollar she ever earned, It is of silver and dears the date of 17O6.
 Louis Orbach committed suicide at Litchfield on Memorial day by throwing himself under the engine at the Shepaug depot. He was undoubtedly insane.
 Wife-"What do you suppose is the reason there are no marriages in goose It is to offset the fact that there is no heaven in marriage"
 An absent-minded Pittsburg preacher recently remarked in an eulogy from his pulpit that "death loves mining shark" Thereupon four stock brokers and man with brother in Colorado got up and left the sacred building.
 The Norwalk Record says: Cards are out for the marriage of Miss Hattie Quintard, neice of Governor Lounsbury to MT Eugene l.. Boyer. both of Nor walk. The happy event will take place Wednesday, 22d inst
 It is rumored that MT c. P. Hunting ton, the railroad millionaire, who is spending about $5O,OOO around the Memorial chapel in Harwinton, will and perhaps public library.
 Rev Edward Woolsey Bacon died at Ocean View Farm, Santa Clara county, California, on Tuesday, June 7th, ot consumption. He was the son of D1 Leonard Bacon. He studied at Yale, but left before graduation to go to the war, serving as chaplain in Connecti- cut regiment. When he entered the ministry after the war he was settled at Torrington.
 The Shore Line Times, published at New Haven, Conn.,, and edited by the Rev B. M. Jerome, comes out enlarged, printed from new type and very much improved in appearance. Mir Jerome has managed the paper for seven years, improving it from time to time, and may now congratulate himself on gett- ing out very handsome sheet, with an abundance of local news Religious Herald.
 Says the Courant The death of the Hon Chauncey F. Cleveland removes the veteran ex-governor, who has out lived ten of his successors in the office which he left forty-three years ago The senior ex-governor is now the Hon William T. Minor of Stamford, who served in 1855-6 but the senior in age is the venerable ex-Governor Holly, of Salisbury, who is 82 years of age, eleven years older than MT Minor. Nine ex governors are living.
 Levi Johnson, the colored patriarch of Torringford, died May 31st He was born slave in Cheshire, this state, ir 1790. He came to Torringford in 1910, and in 1872 married his wife Maria with whom he lived 66 years, she dying in 1878 at the age of 92. He was sex ton of Torringford church over 5( years, resigned that position four years ago [Danbury News.
 High Sheriff Allen, of Litchfelt county, has appointed as deputies Free Richmond New Milford, John c. Rich f mond North Cannan, Thomas A. Gotse Thomaston, Wm B Perry Salisbury Anson J Allen New Hartford, Sidne. 3 Reed Falls Village, Gilbert A Vincen l Kent Minor A Strong Warren, Michae l A Slocum Winsted, B B Chapman Litch